An item about a couple who found a baby on the subway and have now adopted it got me thinking about a couple of UM cases. I can't remember names or even necessarily details.

--A couple driving through the desert at night near Christmas in the 1930s or 1940s stopped due to car trouble and found a baby abandoned in a box and adopted her. People thought it was a setup because what are the odds they would stop at that exact place and find a baby behind a bush or something? Has this baby or any children she may have had been DNA tested to get to the bottom of this?

--A baby in the 1950s was found in some people's car. I forget what happened to it. I remember a lady finding a story about herself on microfilm but I think maybe she was abandoned in a phone booth.

--A baby earlier than the 1950s (the guy was older when interviewed in the 1980s) was found by some people who were going to adopt him but wouldn't after a rabbi said he was Jewish. I forget who ended up getting him. He would probably be dead by now but did he have children and could they be DNA tested?

--The boy in the box (not on UM as far as I know) has been positively identified through DNA but neither of his parents killed him and put him in that box and authorities don't know who did.

First one is Sharon Elliott

Second one sounds like Terris "Terry" Derby

Third might be Victor Simon?

Fourth was never on Unsolved Mysteries

Unsolved Mysteries also did a special alert on a murdered newborn girl who was found in a garbage bag near Jake's Lake in Warner, Oklahoma in 1991. It took nearly 18 years to identify the mother, who was charged with the baby's murder. She never named the man who helped her kill her baby daughter.

--A baby earlier than the 1950s (the guy was older when interviewed in the 1980s) was found by some people who were going to adopt him but wouldn't after a rabbi said he was Jewish. I forget who ended up getting him. He would probably be dead by now but did he have children and could they be DNA tested?



https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/The_Family_of_Charles_Stubin

He found his half-brother, fortunately.

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/The_Family_of_Charles_Stubin

He found his half-brother, fortunately.

Cool, thanks!

Unsolved Mysteries also did a special alert on a murdered newborn girl who was found in a garbage bag near Jake's Lake in Warner, Oklahoma in 1991. It took nearly 18 years to identify the mother, who was charged with the baby's murder. She never named the man who helped her kill her baby daughter.

Oh that case just angers me, absolutely angers me. The “mother” is Penny Lowry and when she was finally arrested she showed absolutely no emotion. She took a plea bargain and got 45 years in prison. I hope she spends every last moment there and rots. Her face matches her soul.

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/nation-world/2010/10/28/tulsa-woman-sentenced-in-1991-death-of-her-infant-daughter/61204191007/

--A couple driving through the desert at night near Christmas in the 1930s or 1940s stopped due to car trouble and found a baby abandoned in a box and adopted her. People thought it was a setup because what are the odds they would stop at that exact place and find a baby behind a bush or something? Has this baby or any children she may have had been DNA tested to get to the bottom of this?

--The boy in the box (not on UM as far as I know) has been positively identified through DNA but neither of his parents killed him and put him in that box and authorities don't know who did.

I had thought the first one had been solved and it was a friend of the family or something? I thought they found that the entire story was made up and it was just a fanciful way of getting the baby to the people who 'found' it?

As for the boy in the box.. I'd agree that the father wasn't involved and most likely didn't even know he had a child. The mother.. I'm not quite as convinced. Since no adoption records on him have ever been found.. I just can't see how she didn't have custody of him.. Unless, we're looking at one of those black market adoption situations.. Which.. I still would hold her partially responsible.